“This is what you shall do; Love the earth and sun and the
animals, despise riches, give alms to every one that asks, stand up for the
stupid and crazy, devote your income and labor to others, hate tyrants, argue
not concerning God, have patience and indulgence toward the people, take off
your hat to nothing known or unknown or to any man or number of men, go freely
with powerful uneducated persons and with the young and with the mothers of
families, read these leaves in the open air every season of every year of your
life, re-examine all you have been told at school or church or in any book,
dismiss whatever insults your own soul, and your very flesh shall be a great
poem and have the richest fluency not only in its words but in the silent lines
of its lips and face and between the lashes of your eyes and in every motion
and joint of your body.”
Walt Whitman
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make your life a
poem
its not that hard
if your life is
written
by the great poet
know that you are
a love poem
that you lift up
hearts
and pluck souls
from the abyss
for your rhyme
and meter
are generosity
and acceptance
kindness and
forgiveness
make your life a
poem
defined by the
cadence of love
love
give
advocate
resist evil
mingle with the
questionable
examine
everything
make your life a
poem
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